George Catlin’s Travelling Museum – On The Road
July 9, 2021
By 1837, Catlin had assembled his portable Indian museum and began taking it around to eastern cities. It was offered... Read More →
George Catlin’s Travelling Museum – His Field Study
July 2, 2021
Our last three notes regarding cabinets of curiosities, professional collections and museums mostly had a Euro-centric perspective. Today, let us... Read More →
Walter Rothschild’s Museum Legacy
June 25, 2021
No sketch about museums and species would be complete without including Walter Rothschild. Born into the extremely wealthy banking family... Read More →
Cabinets of Curiosities Become Collections
June 18, 2021
The cabinets of curiosities of the 1600s and 1700s, scattered across Europe, raised some good questions about the life and... Read More →
An Ocean Disaster and Recovery
June 11, 2021
Once upon a time, some 80 million years ago, the center of the continent we now call North America was... Read More →
Bladdernut: An Unfamiliar Native Shrub
June 4, 2021
The native shrub called bladdernut apparently used to be quite common around here based on reference to it in early... Read More →
The Birds
May 28, 2021
In 1952, British author Daphne du Maurier released a macabre story titled, “The Birds.” The tale was about ordinary birds... Read More →
Silent Spring, Returning
May 21, 2021
Dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane, most commonly known as DDT, became manufacturable in commercial quantities during WWII and quickly became the military insecticide of... Read More →
In Their Own Words: Jeff Klahn and Elisabeth Swain
May 21, 2021
Supporting Nature Where They Are Like many Iowans, Jeff Klahn and Elisabeth Swain love the outdoors. Both lifelong biologists —... Read More →
Powerhouse: Chainsaw Course for Women Builds Skills, Confidence
May 17, 2021
IOWA CITY – The derecho last August revealed a need for chainsaw skills. A new course offered by a local... Read More →
